escanear
Portuguese, verb/is.ka.niˈa(ʁ)/
escanear is spelled E-S-C-A-N-E-A-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese, the 57,216th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Escanear is a Portuguese verb meaning “to scan” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “digitalizar usando um escâner”.
What does escanear mean in English?
verb
- 1
to scan
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. digitalizar usando um escâner 2. vasculhar ou verificar
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of escanear
- escaneio first-person present singular
- escaneei first-person preterite singular
- escaneado participle past
- escaneares infinitive second-person singular
- escanearmos first-person infinitive plural
- escaneardes infinitive plural second-person
- escanearem infinitive plural third-person
- escaneando gerund
- escaneados masculine participle past
- escaneada feminine participle past
- escaneadas feminine participle past
- escaneias indicative present second-person
- escaneia indicative present singular
- escaneamos first-person indicative plural
- escaneais indicative plural present
- escaneiam indicative plural present
- escaneava first-person imperfect indicative
- escaneavas imperfect indicative second-person
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce escanear?
- Brazil /is.ka.niˈa(ʁ)/
- Brazil [is.ka.niˈa(h)]
- Brazil /is.kaˈnja(ʁ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to escanear
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is escanear in Portuguese?
escanear appears about once in every 3 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).